How can CHC be the greatest place or church when the youth are hero-worshiping Kong Hee? It’s nice to have songs written about people. But do you think that this song goes too far in exalting Kong Hee and CHC? Is CHC demonstrating signs of being a cult by revealing that their youth may be brainwashed to worshiping Kong Hee and CHC?

23 youths from City Harvest Church have recorded a music video to express support for their congregation and its embattled leadership.

Titled “The Greatest Place — City Harvest Church” , the 4-and-a-half-minute video begins with an opening sequence of several youths proclaiming their love for “this place”.

The video, which was recorded earlier this month on 15th July, also describes how the music video came to be.

“23 youths from different zones and cellgroups came together to record a song in support of our church and our leadership,” says an opening message in the video.

Several lines of lyrics call City Harvest the place where the youths — who by their looks range from early teens to mid-twenties — found their “home”, “freedom” and the “greatest place I have ever known.”

Although church founder Pastor Kong Hee is never directly mentioned, he is shown preaching in several sequences while lyrics allude to him as “the greatest man that I have ever known”.

The video, which was uploaded on YouTube on 28 July and has been viewed close to 5,000 times, also addresses the testing time the church faces.

“In this time, we will stand stronger, hand in hand we will climb higher, this is my church, my life,” goes one of the main lines in the song.

Unitedrecordssg, which uploaded the video, describes itself as a production house by musicians for musicians.

After a two-year investigation, Kong Hee and five other senior members of the church were charged in June for allegedly misusing$24 million of church funds to further the career of Kong Hee’s pop-star wife, Sun Ho.

Earlier this week, Kong Hee, 47, said he maintains his integrity and he is confident he would be “vindicated”. Pre-trial conferences for all six will be held on 30 August.

City Harvest, which was founded by Kong Hee and his wife Sun Ho, boasts an average weekly attendance of 23,000 worshippers with an average age of 24.

It’s fine to sing songs about how much you love a church building, I mean it happens right through the c3 movement doesn’t it? “I love your house, it’s where your glory dwells” (does it?), “I’m gonna tell the world how awesome is this place”, “home is where the heart is” etc. Great declaration of affection. As long as it doesn’t turn into personal worship, right? Though I also note with this song it incorporates heart-breaking emotional music – which makes it much easier to sing about your love for the building or person.

I mean, they must LOVE their church – “This is my church, my life!” Excellent! The church is your life! So Jesus isn’t? Your spouse isn’t? You love the church more than your family? Your dog?

But when you starting singing about Kong is “the greatest man I have ever known”, and “the greatest man I will ever know” there’s problems. That means in their life, no other person on earth will be greater to them than Kong Hee, not even their spouse, their father, their mother, or even their dog. Sound cultish? Worship of man? Especially when at 3:49 the bloke on the left is lifting his hands like a worship song. Unless they are actually talking about Jesus. Oh wait…..

Brainwashing by bombarding psychological words used by most Word Faith movement creates cults especially among the ignorants, follies, naived and simpletons who hardly read the Bible. They are brainwashed by the cult groups with cell meetings then forced to follow the leaders in each cell. Watch The Following to see how Jim Jones cultudts members can gain loyalties even in suicides.

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